News Item: : Indifference... Compromise... e.t.c
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Tuesday 17 July 2018 - 11:31:16

Patriarch of Lisbon, Cardinal Manuel Clemente.

In a remarkably ho-hum kind of way, and with a cheery accompanying photograph of Pope Francis greeting Patriarch of Lisbon Manuel Clemente, the Catholic Herald breezily announced at the weekend the headline, Pope personally thanks Portuguese cardinal for Amoris guidelines.

The article includes a sub-heading which proclaims, ''The guidelines say it may be possible to admit couples in irregular unions to Holy Communion.''

Think for a moment of the grave spiritual damage which that kind of headlining does to souls and to the Church, while it festers away for all to see on a page of the Herald.

Aside from a short paragraph noting that ''conservatives'' had accused the Patriarch of betraying the Faith, whilst also reporting that the ''secular press'' had condemned him for telling divorced and remarried couples to live in continence, the Herald article stood aloft from any direct critique of either Francis, Clemente, Amoris Laetitia or the latest ''guidelines''.

By the way, that bit about continence in the Herald article relates to the cardinal patriarch's tepid request for couples in ''irregular unions'' - i.e. adulterous situations - to ''first try to live in continence if they wanted to receive the sacraments. However, if that proves impossible, they should move on to a discernment process that could lead them to rejoining the sacramental life of the Church.''

As damaging as that is to the Church and to souls, in light of the furore over the ''smoking'' Footnote 351, it seems that even this was just not enough for the secular media in question.

Of course, the wording of those guidelines employs the same kind of vague hall of mirrors technique which has characterised this whole push for the acceptance of sacrilegious communion for adulterers throughout the whole of the ''synodal process'', the launch of Amoris Laetitia, the initial phase of plausible deniability regarding officially non-official acceptance of the ''Amoris guidelines'' from Buenos Aires and from Malta, the hardening into a cool acknowledgement of the guidelines once resistance had clearly collapsed, and everything else that has followed in the wake of this whole dreadful business.

And all of that is to say nothing of the associated and simply apocalyptic attempt at a total Gotterdammerung in Germany...

The very fact of this acceptance by Francis, the manner in which it is reported and the general indifference with which the whole thing has been received, all demonstrate just how far things have crumbled by now.

It is difficult to imagine such a sleepy acceptance of adultery and sacrilege happening even just two short years ago.

Talk about the Boiled Frog Approach...

And yet, despite the somnolent response of most Catholics, this is actually another event of truly apocalyptic proportions.

In that sense, it also calls to mind two other much overlooked, but very important themes.

The first relates to that mysterious phrase in the officially revealed part of the Third Secret of Fatima, ''In Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved, etc.''

We again must wonder what is behind that seemingly all important etc? 

The other important aspect, which is similarly ignored by most people today, relates to those words of Our Lady to Sr. Agnes Sasagawa at Akita: ''The Church will be full of those who accept compromises.''

That phrase ''full of'' is as troubling as it looks accurate. Who would doubt that such is already the case by now?

Isn't that exactly what we see all around us?

Indifference, compromise, etc...

''But, yet, the Son of man, when He cometh, shall He find, think you, faith on earth?'' (Luke 18:8).

If all of this troubles you, and it should, then rejoice in the knowledge that you are still a Catholic; if it crucifies your heart, then know that you have been very blessed by God.

Yours is the correct response in the face of such reckless evil; somnolence, indifference and compromise are not.

Dear readers, let us pray for each other to receive the graces necessary to persevere in the Faith, and to pray for God's enemies to be converted.

Without indifference or compromise.

et cetera!

Our Lady of the Holy Eucharist - Pray for us!

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